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Interviews, Assessments and Evidence Used to Evaluate “Ready Schools” OR How We Met Some Really Nice People, Traveled to Some Really Interesting Places, Ate Some Great Food, Learned a Huge Amount, and Maybe Helped Some Teachers, Kids, and Families in NC!
Three Things You Will Learn:
1. What are “Ready Schools”?
NC SPARK
WK Kellogg Foundation’s Nine Pathways to Ready Schools adapted by the North Carolina Ready School Task Force:
Nine Pathways
2. Why Are Ready Schools Important?
Why Are Ready Schools Important?
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1991- Transitions to Kindergarten in American Schools
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3. What Tools Can be Used to Evaluate “Ready Schools”?
Tools
Samples From Evaluations Conducted for:
Evaluations
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Self-Assessments: The “Ready Schools Assessment©” (RSA)
The Ready Schools Assessment (RSA)
The RSA
The RSA utilizes the following specific indicators
Completing the RSA
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Online Profiler Results for a school in Region A
Online Profiler Results for a school in Union County
Utilizing RSA results
Introducing Robin Minick
The ELFE
What is the ELFE?
ELFE
How Does the ELFE Work?
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Why Should Schools Consider Using the ELFE?
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RSIA
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Surveys
The Kindergarten Family Transition Survey
The Kindergarten Family Transition Survey
The Kindergarten Family Survey
Child Attended PreK/Childcare in the Year Prior to Kindergarten
How did you hear about kindergarten?
Childcare Assisted in Transition
What did the schools do that helped in transition to kindergarten?
Parent Transition Ease
School & District Comparisons: Case Study School
Significant Findings
Findings
Introducing Lesa Schirmacher
The PreKindergarten and Kindergarten Teacher Survey
Job Description
What do you do in your classroom to support a child and his/her families transition to kindergarten?
Please share which two attributes below you feel are most critical for a child’s school readiness.
Strategies for Preparing Children for Transition: Organize the environment to allow children to select their own activities from a variety of choices.
Strategies for Preparing Children for Transition : Invite kindergartners or older siblings to visit and talk about the change.
Strategies for Involving Parents in Transition: Discuss the transfer of records with parents and provide “release of information” forms.
Strategies for Reaching into the Community : Organize an annual effort to identify books about being ready for “big school”.
Analysis of Student Academic Outcomes
Beginning of the Year Literacy Assessment Results/Ranger N=39
End of Year Kindergarten Assessment for SPARK Students in Case Study vs. Other Schools
Introducing Mary Ann Rasberry
Which Data Were Collected?
Title I Transition Ratings
Average EPSF Sub-Scores for Title I Students
End-of-Year Data Collected
Pre-K/Non-Pre-K DRA Comparisons
Exploring Data Relationships
Ethnography
The “Ready Schools” Case Study
What is a Case Study?
Setting
Semi-Structured Observations
Interviews
Ready School Interviews Some Administrator Questions
Ready School Interviews Some Teacher Questions
Interview Excerpts A welcoming atmosphere
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Interview Excerpts Connects with children and families
Focus Groups- Group Interview
Focus Group Question
Selected Response
Documents
Wisdom Gained From Using the Tools
Theoretical Model
Questions?
Thank You!
Author:
Bruce Yelton